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By Pete McIntyre
Highway 97

Fatal motorbike crash west of Vernon

May 6, 2024 | 12:30 PM

RCMP say a man from Kamloops, who was riding a motorcycle, died after a collision on Highway 97 in Westwold on Sunday.

Police say the 66-year-old victim was travelling southbound around 10 a.m. on May 5 when his bike rear-ended a pickup truck that was stopped waiting to make a turn off the highway.

“Sadly, despite the best efforts of bystanders and medical personnel, the motorcycle rider, a 66-year-old Kamloops man, was pronounced deceased,” Cpl. Tania Finn, media relations officer for Vernon North Okanagan RCMP, told Vernon Matters.

The crash closed part of Highway 97 for six hours.

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